ASIA COOPERATION DIALOGUE

ASIA COOPERATION DIALOGUE Pakistan played a central role in organizing the Asia Cooperation Dialogue According to Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, this effort was part of a vision that “aims at interlocking political and economic relations with the countries of Central, East, and North-East Asia Pakistan wants to integrate itself in the process unfolding in greater East Asia, a region which is steadily acquiring increasing economic and political weight We are pursuing this in tandem with our efforts to organize both SAARC and Economic Cooperation Organization”The fourth session of the Dialogue was held in Islamabad on 5April 2005 and was addressed by Wen Jiabao, prime minister ofChina It was attended by foreign ministers from 25 Asian countries